Slartibartfast wrote:Sir Sirius wrote:From the same page as the previus one:
I mean, sure, there has to be something that created this universe and everything therein, but did you ever stop and think that maybe it was meant to be self-sufficient?
OK, now I'm ticked off, the guy is a fundie himself. Why does there HAVE to be
something ("something"... sure.
) that created the Universe?
Maybe you should research the definition of a Fundie. This guy seems at best a reasonable person, and at worst a harmless Christian who doesn't diss science
which would actually be a point in FAVOR because it shows that even religious people think Chick is a prick.
Indeed we do. Serious theologians (by which I mean members of the American Academy of Religion, American Theological Society, Society of Biblical Literature, or National Council of Churches) are unanimously against Biblical literalism. There is not a single reputable theologian who takes the same stance Chick does. I'm doing research on this for a paper right now, and the majority of anti-creation witnesses in Arkansas in 1981 were religious (twelve out of seventeen individuals and four out of six organizations).
This included representatives from the American Jewish Congress, bishops from the Methodist, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic churches, and theologians from various universities, along with the National Association of Biology Teachers (the only science in the prosecution) and the Arkansas Educational Association. The defendants of creation "science" were 24 Ph.D.'s in physics, astronomy, chemistry, biochemistry, geology, biology, physiology, botany, and zoology. Their degrees came from UCLA, Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, University of Southern California, Penn State, Michigan, Ohio State, Iowa, North Carolina, and Western Ontario.
The scariest thing to me is that the director of the Midwest Center for Creation Research has a doctorate in physics from MIT. We're training people in the scientific method, but the heretics are sucking them in somehow.